Gallery: This Is What the Internet Looks Like IRL
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A television team sets up a temporary Internet stream to broadcast via satellite to TVs across the globe. Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
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A naked billboard next to a busy street in Cairo, Egypt.
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Local telephone cables join the important Transatlantic Telecommunications Cable 14 (TAT 14) and disappear into the basement wall of the International Net Management Center in Germany.
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Caffe Facebook. Cairo, Egypt.
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A map of all the international undersea cable systems that physically connect the world. MENA Submarine Cable System, Cairo, Egypt.
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A famous Internet meme on a t-shirt. Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
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A freshly unwrapped piece of server equipment in a Alcatel-Lucent warehouse on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
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A photo representing the sea floor, shot in a supermarket in Zamalek, Egypt.
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Interior shot of a data center near an ECC Solutions data center in Cairo, Egypt.
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An ordinary Wi-Fi router in a living room in Cairo, Egypt.
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A whole neighborhood is connected to the Internet through this box at the side of a road in Giza, Cairo, Egypt.
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Lights that illuminate the Pyramids. Cairo, Egypt.
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Cooling systems at the Competence Center Submarine Cables in the small city of Norden, Germany.
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Defunct antennas at a warehouse of hardware supplier Alcatel-Lucent in Cairo, Egypt.
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An ordinary Wi-Fi router in a living room in Cairo, Egypt.
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Cables and satellite dishes going to individual homes in Cairo, Egypt.
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